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2024: 800,000 Page Challenge COMPLETED!!
Death of a Naturalist - Seamus Heaney
57 pages
Our Lady of the Pillar - Eça de Queirós
56 pages
Group Total: 221,339
Mod
212 pages
Group total: 221 846
The Sky Above the Roof: Fifty-Six Poems by Paul Verlaine - Paul Verlaine
101 pages
Total to date: 222,107
We Die Alone by David Howarth208 pages
Group total: 222,315
Contos Indianos by Stéphane Mallarmé - 104 pages
O Mortal Imortal: Contos Sobrenaturais by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 142 pagesGroup Total: 222 561
The Pit and the Pendulum 64 PagesThe Raven 64 Pages
The Fall of the House of Usher 36 pages
Petersburg Tales: New Translation 192 pages
The Trojan Women 89 pages
Helen 126 pages
Heart of Darkness 188 pages
Typhoon 142 pages
The Histories 716 pages
Clouds 97 pages
Lysistrata 132 pages
The Wasps 92 pages
To the Lighthouse 209 pages
My Total: 2147
Group total: 223,574 + 2147 + (231 + 104) = 226,056
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Rodrigo thank you for catching the total up for us!!
Thank you for the updates!!
Updated Group Total = 226,319
- Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu - 108 pages- Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen - 260 pages
- The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H.P. Lovecraft - 43 pages
- The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle - 378 pages
- The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov - 206 pages
- Persuasion by Jane Austen - 249 pages
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde - 272 pages
- Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos - 402 pages
- La Comtesse de Cagliostro by Maurice Leblanc - 293 pages
Updated Group Total = 228 530
Lesle wrote: "h13, and Nike, Please add your total pages read to give us a new Group total.Rodrigo thank you for catching the total up for us!!
Thank you for the updates!!
Updated Group Total = 226,319"
Ok! 🙂
1) 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool by James Kaplan - 496 pp2). The Quest For Fire by J-H Rosny - 193 pp
3). The Death of Achilles by Boris Akunin - 320 pp
4). Lost Souls by Balzac - 509 pp
5) Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht -93 pp
6) 1616: The World in Motion by Thomas Christiansen - 384 pp
7) The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia McKillip -343 pp
8). You Don't Know Me by Imran Mahmood - 400 pp
9) A Zoo in My Luggage by Gerald Durrell - 198 pp
10). A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry - 728 pp
Total no of pages - 3664+
Previous Total -226 056
Group Total = 229 983
Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann759 pages
Königliche Hoheit by Thomas Mann
359 pages
Green Dolphin Country by Elizabeth Goudge
767 pages
Total here above: 1885 pages
Antony and Cleopatra - 200 pagesThe Winter’s Tale - 200 pages
The Iliad - 600 pages
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson from 1962
175 pages
Group total: 228 748 + 175 = 228 923
Oh, but this gets mixed up and wrong since it takes a while before the site gets updated. There are different group totals in a few of the last comments.
A'right,The Hound of the Baskervilles - 256 pages
Brideshead Revisited - 464 pages
The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories - 232 pages
Tales from Malgudi - 90 pages
Group total --> 228,923 + 1042 = 229,965
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) by Mark Twain, 274 pagesOld Man and The Sea (1952) by Ernest Hemingway, 128 pages
The Lion The Which and The Wardrobe (1950) by CS Lewis, 172 pages
Anne of Avonlea 276 pagesAnne of Green Gables 308 pages
Emma by Jane Austen 592 pages
The Lost Girl by DH Lawrence 416 pages
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett 331 pages
Nike wrote: "Oh, but this gets mixed up and wrong since it takes a while before the site gets updated. There are different group totals in a few of the last comments."I would edit mine, but there's at least one post above mine without any total so I don't know, I am confused about the total now
Pride and prejudice: Jane Austen The brothers Karamazov: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Anna Karenina : Leo Tolstoy
To Kill a mockingbird: Harper lee
The Great gatsby : Scott Fitzgerald
Jane eyre: Charlotte Bronte
The Bottle Imp by Robert Louis Stevenson
52 pages
Five on a Treasure Island by Enid Blyton
176 pages
Alone In Berlin by Hans Fallada
693 pages
The Rocking-Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence
22 pages
The Shooting Star by Hergé
62 pages
The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
308 pages
Total: 1313 pages
I refrain for the moment to sum up the group total since several people has commented simultaneously and therefore the amount is not correct. And message 624 doesn't seem to be counted. I think the moderators have to sort out the mess first. 🌺
The Godfather - 448 pagesThe Body Snatcher - 22 pages
The Rats - 208 pages
The Hunter - 208 pages
The Book of Disquiet - 468 pages
Ivanhoe - 496 pages
Moving On - 1008 pages
All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers - 304 pages
The Complete Poems of John Keats - 416 pages
Mildred Pierce - 288 pages
The Man with the Getaway Face: A Parker Novel - 225 pages
The Outfit - 224 pages
The Mourner - 224 pages
The Score - 213 pages
Dune - 658 pages
The Jugger - 224 pages
The Seventh - 158 pages
The Handle - 158 pages
The Rare Coin Score - 160 pages
Dune Messiah - 336 pages
The Green Eagle Score - 160 pages
The Hot Rock - 287 pages
We Can Remember It for You Wholesale - 29 pages
Uncle Vanya - 69 pages
Equus - 112 pages
All My Sons - 112 pages
Last and First Men - 246 pages
The Black Ice Score - 144 pages
The Last of the Mohicans - 410 pages
The Sour Lemon Score - 160 pages
Deadly Edge - 214 pages
Total: 8389 pages
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- 225 pagesHenry V -- 227 pages
King Henry IV, Part 1 -- 55 pages
King Henry IV, Part 2 -- 108 pages
Don Quixote 1023 pages
1984 298 pages
The Makioka Sisters 544 pages
Howards End 373 pages
To the Lighthouse 209 pages
Ulysses 783 pages
Persuasion 149 pages
Lord Jim 455 pages
Great Expectations 544 pages
Bleak House 1017 pages
Persuasion 149 pages
David Copperfield 882 pages
A Tale of Two Cities 489 pages
All Quiet of the Western Front 237 pages
Metamorphoses 416 pages
The Trial 255 pages
Crime and Punishment 615 pages
The Brothers Karamazov 796 pages
War and Peace 1392 pages
Anna Karenina 964 pages
Dubliners 352 pages
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 329 pages
Fathers and Sons 244 pages
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque199 pages
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
64 pages
Power Without Glory by Frank Hardy648 pages
With No One As Witness Cd by Elizabeth George : 774 pagesCareless in Red by Elizabeth George : 640 pages
Believing the Lie by Elizabeth George: 610 pages
Total here above: 2024
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry96 pages
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
428 pages
The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie
400 pages
Group Total: 11,530
I have many more classics on my TBR. I'll try to get to some before the end of the year! :)
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe - 438 pages
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler - 211The House in Paris by Eliz Bowen - 353
Whose Names Are Unknown by Sanora Babb - 222
The Birds by Tarjei Vesaas - 301
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner - 288
The Enormous Room by Cummings - 304
The Innocence of Father Brown by Chesterton - 232
The Sundial by S Jackson - 222
The Princess of Cleves by La Fayette - 192
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain - 327
The quest. By Frederik van Eeden; the authorized translation from the Dutch of De Kleine Johannes, by L.W.C. 1907 Leather Bound by Van Eeden - 528
1984 by Orwell - 328
Goodbye, Columbus by Roth - 320
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy - 242
4,070 pages
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